Unable to set background color for button

I want to change the background color of a Gtk::Button, but I simply can
not do it :-(

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
     auto app = Gtk::Application::create(argc, argv, "org.gtkmm.example");

     Gtk::Window window;

     Gtk::Button button("Some text");
     window.add(button);

     Gdk::RGBA color;
     color.set_rgba(0xff,0x00,0x00);
     //button.override_color(color); // this will change the text color
     button.override_background_color(color); // this change nothing :-(


     window.show_all_children();

     return app->run(window);
}

Is there any chance to set the background color? The online docs did not
say anything...
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/stable/classGtk_1_1Button.html